Note 26 — Translation of CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S Narrative of the Spanish Armada.
Robert Crawford translation
Hacienda Norte de las montañas. Norte, strictly speaking, means the Arctic pole; but, according to the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy, it is also used, metaphorically, to mean direction, or guide, in allusion to the North Star, by which navigators guide themselves with the direction of the mariner's compass.